The Sun. — London, England, 1836-03-10 00:00:00

CONSTANTINOPLE. FEB. 10.-Lord Ponsonby met on the 6th inst. the Reis Effendi in conference at the Porte, and on the following day despatched a messenger to London. The public has not yet been able to ascertain officially what motive occa sioned this interview. By many persons it is supposed that the difficulties Colonel Chesnby encountered at Bir on the part of the local authorities vexed our Ambassador to such a degree, that he had determined on going in person to the Porte in order to remonstrate on the subject. These per sons are evidently not aware that upon being made ac quainted by the English representative with what had oc curred at Bir, the Porte sent, it is now ten days since, a firman to Redschid Mehmet Pasha, enjoining him to take the steps necessary to prevent the recurrence of circum stances so highly disagreeable, and recommending him to use every means to maintain a friendly intercourse between the subjects of the Grand Seignor living in his Pashalics and the Englishmen belonging to the Euphrates expedition. It is to be presumed that by this time one of the steamers is on its way to Bussorab. I have grounds for believing that Lord Ponsonby's chief object in demanding an interview with the Turkish Minister of Foreign Affairs was to expose the ruthless canduct of Ibrahim's Lieutenant at Aleppo towards the British Consul in that city, and to insist on a reparation of the insult which the troops under his orders had lately offered to the King of England's flag. According to letters received from Aleppo, a fresh levy of troops was ordered to be made in that city in the begin ning of January. A few days after the publication of Ibrahim's proclamation, the Governor finding that many of the young men whose names figured on the register of the individuals.fit for military service had. not made their ap pearance, gave orders to the troops to search every house in town till thy were found. Several of these individuals belonged to families which from time immemorial had lived under English protection. Shortly after his arrival in Syria, Ibrahim having declared that he considered this I privilege as null, they felt that they could escape the pursuits of the local authorities only by taking refuge at the British Consulate, where they were kilidly received by Mr. Nathaniel Werry. After having vainly looked after them in their own dwellings, which they forced open, the soldiers of Ibrahim presented themselves at the glte of the British Consulate, and told the Consul, on his appearing before them in full uniform, that unless the individuals who were concealed in his house were immediately surrendered up into their hands, they had orders to take them away by force. Mr. Werry's expostulations were of no avail, the soldiers rushed into his house, and dragged, in the most brutal manner, out of their concealment every Syrian they could lay their hands upon. Lord Ponsonby has, it is supposed, assured the Porte that it was quite out of the question to think that England could allow an insult of this nature to remain unavenged, and has invited the Porte to give to our Government a re paratory satisfaction tantamount to the injury its dignity has received. How can this, however, be accomplished by the Porte, unless our Ministry agrees to the removal of the status quo which it has imposed on Turkey ? It is absurd to hold the Porte responsible for the acts of the governors of its provinces, while we deny her the faculty of punishing them for their misrule. The frigate and two corvettes forming part of the flotilla commanded by Tahir Pasha, which had for some time been missing, arrived here on the 7th instant. Two of the fri gates which had been sent last summer to blockade the coast of Albania returned to port also on the same day. The Turkish fleet is not dismantled—on the contrary, every ship in the harbour is kept ready to put to sea within three days' notice. Austria has lately had occasion to repent having allowed Russia to take possession of the islands at the mouth of the Danube. The Danube Steam Navigation Company having sought, for the convenience of the vessels which are to keep up the communication between Galacz and Constantinople, to establish a depot of coals on the island formed by the Soulina and the St. George branch of the river, the Russians have objected to the formation of a similar establishment, Art. 3 of the treaty of Adrianople stipulating, that " a • partir du point ou Ic bras de St. Georges se separe de celui de Soulina demeurcra inhabite a la distance des deux heures de fle.uve, et qu'il n'y sera forme d'etablissement d'aucune espece, et que de meme sur les isles qui resteront en pos scss'on de la Cour de Russie a l'exception des quarantaines qui'y seront etablies, it ne sera permis d'y faire.aucun autre etablissement." The Mussulman i.oputation of this city was lately rouses out of its habitual apathy by the report that Dervish Ali the most renowned among the Velis, or saints, in Turkey had been stopped on his way to Mecca, and been brought back in chains to Constantinople, and thrown, by order of the foremost among his patrons, the Seraskier, into the dungeon where the most guilty criminals are usually confined. For some days it was believed that the treatment to which the holy pilgrim had been ex posed was but one of those castigations to which Providence is pleased occasionally to subject the just and virtuous, and it was inferred that upon beinti brought to triel it would be an easy task for him triumph. antly to prove his innocence, and cause his light to shine with increased effulgence before me. To the utter dismay and surprise of the numerous auditory collected on so interesting an occasion, the nature of the evidence brought in proof of the accusations laid against Dervish Ali was so irrccusable, that, not daring to venture a single word in his own defence, he merely recom mended himself to the mercy of his Judge. It re sulted from his own confessions that, after obtaining the Sultan's permission to proceed to the tomb of the Prophet, he advanced several:days' journey into the inte rior of Asia Minor, and, changing his dress for that of a Pacha, assumed the name of Altik Ali Pacha. A magnificent diamond order, once the property of Sayd Pacha, appended to his breast close to a decoration similar to those given by the Sultan to those of his grandees who have rendered important services to the empire, and a firman, signed by the Seraskier, rea dily insured, wherever he presented himself, the most obsequious reception, the blindest submission to his com mands. In compliance with the secret instructions given him by Government he raised in a few weeks a considerable body of troops, and laid heavy contributions on every district through which he judged most proper to pass. Unfortu nately for the rising fortunes of the Pa'cha, Essad Effendi, the Sultan's Envoy to the Court of Persia, happened to:ar rive with his suite at a small village not far distant from Si vas; where the former had taken up his quarters on the pre ceding eve. The Motisselim, while making his apoligics to the Envoy fol not giving-him an accommodation due to his rank, had naturally repeated occasion to mention the name of fiis other guest, the Pacha. He could hardly recover from his surprise upon hearing Essad Effendi assure him that he not only did not know, but, moreover, had never heard of a Pacha of the name he mentioned. The very suppositiOn of such a circumstance, he added, appeared to him totally inadmissible. Having up to the day of his departure for Persia acted bolls as historiographer of the Sult4p and editor of the official .Ga zette, he assuredly ought to be familiar with the name of every Pitch in existence. Finding, however, that all his assurances went but a little way in changing the Mousselin's opinions, he offqed to send his brother, Teftli Bey, to wait on this distinguished guest, positively to ascertain who he was, whether perchance, he was not a person who, entrusted with a secret mission, had assumed this unheard of name, in order to avoid discovery. Tafeli Bey, who on more than one occasion had seen Dervish Ali when at Stamboul rea dily recognized him, but had tact enough not to betray the slightest sign of surprise in witnessing the transmutation he had undergone- On the contrary, he was during the whole time of his visit so prodigal of Zemenahs, so hum ble in his prostrations, that Ali felt satisfied that his arts of deception had produced as complete an effect on the Constantinopolitap cockney as on the Asiatic boor—the Mousselim. Upon hearing his brother's report, Essad Effendi informed the Governor that it was his inten tion forthwith to acquaint the Porte of this sharper's proceedings, and declared to him that unless, he ar rested him he would have to answer for his negli gence. The task of arresting him was, however, one attended with no trifling difficulty. Dervish Ali had no less than fifteen hundred men under his orders, the Mousselim but twenty cavishes, or policemen, of some what dubious volour. It became necessary to try how far, under similar circumstances, the saying " plus fait douceur que violence," might be applicable. A superb snuff-box was sent him as a present by Essad Effendi, along with a request to meet him at dinner at the Governor's. So flattering and flowery were the terms in which the note was couched, that AR could not but accept the invitation. Nothing had been spared that could add to the brilliancy of the entertain ment, nothing neglected which could entrance the comfort of the guests. The greater part of the night was spent enter pocula et joces, with so much glee that a sense of decorum could not allow the host to permit that his guests should return home in the un-Mussulman condition to which the juice of the vine had reduced them. Altik Ali Pacha was laid to bed, to awaken out of the dreams of hapness, in whi c h hi s m i n d l ux uriated, to the appalling conscpiious ness of being fetter-bound and doome d to be sent to the capital. It is not known yet to what fate justice reserves him. A few days he was promdted from his situation in the Seraskier's dungeon to one in the galleys. On Saturday morning the wives of the prisoners un der conviction for the Cusiom-house robbery were permitted to visit their husbands in Newgate. One of - those who availe d herself of this privilege was Seale's wife, who went there soon after ten o'clock on the above morning. She had a long in terview with her husband, and app eare d to b e very mu ch affected on being apprised by him that it Was probable he would be transported for life. She afterwards proceeded home, but had scarcely entered the house where she had been lodging since her husband's incarceration, when she dropp e d d own an d almost instantaneously expired. EXETER ADDRESS TO HIS MAJESTY. On Monday we very briefly noticed the excellent and Loyal Address of the Exeter Town Council. This sen sible and spirited expression of public sentiment was adopted on Tuesday on the motion of Mr. It. Bastard, seconded by Mr. Snell, and supported by a strong muster of Reformers, among whom honourable mention ought to be made of Mr. Mark Kennaway. This gentleman, in supporting the Address, argued with singular force and eloquence ; nor did he fail to apply to the Tories of the town a castiga tion to the full as merited as it was searchingly severe. We regret that the pressure of Parliamentary and other matter will not allow us to give insertion to a report of the proceedings. We regard the• carrying of the Address as specially worthy of notice, since it affords decisive evidence of the weakness of the Conservatives, even in their old strongholds.' It appears from the report of the proceedings in the Western Times, now lying before us, that the illiberal, or, as they call themselves, " Conservative" members of the Exeter Town Council, wished very much to stifle the natu ral and proper expression of gratitude to his Majesty for reforming the corrupt corporations (that of Exeter was among the most corrupt) ; but they had not the courage to try their strength. The soi-disant lip-loyal gentlemen were willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike ; and accordingly we find them resorting to pitiful shifts, to miserable pettifog ging evasions, worthy of the practice only of the Old Bailey. Their defence proved their guilt. They denied any dis loyal intention to withhold thanks from his Majesty. They were fully prepared to thank the King for Munici pal Reform, but they refused to thank his Ministers who effected it. They attempted to evade the expression of gratitude to the men who actually worked tho good—to the men who framed, introduced, and carried into effect that great and beneficial measure of Municipal Reform, to which the King did no more than give his Royal assent. The Tories are the same everywhere ; they are the Evil Spirits of the world, who mask their hatred of good and reformed institutions with some form or shew of attachment to King, Monarch, or Emperor, in order only the more ef fectually to poison the sources of social improvement and human happiness. The Tory Town Councillors of Exeter must, however, eventually be destroyed by the better and more liberal influences now abroad there ; nothing more is wanting to their complete destiluction than well-directed efforts similar to those the Liberals, made on Tuesday. They cannot long withstand that mighty current of opinion, ;he force of which is now felt more or less in every part of he world. SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) (FROM LLOYD'S.) DEAL, MARCH 9.—Wind S. S. W., fresh. Arrived the Thomas Snook, Brown, from Calcutta. Arrived from the river the John Pink, Nixer, and Ruby, James, from Jamaica. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 9. —Wind S., and squally. Arrived the Sovereign, Walnymph, from St. Michael's. PLYMOUTH, MARCH B.—Wind N. W. Sailed the Marma luke, Mason, for Bordeaux, and Fly, Saper, for Figuiera. FALMOUTH, MARCH 8. —Wind N. W. to N. N. W. Arrived the Elizabeth, Cunningham ' from Lisbon. Sailed the Scor pion and Espoir (packets) for Lisbon ; Eclipse (packet) for Cadiz and the Mediterranean : Alert (packet) for the West Indies ; Camden (packet) for Halifak ; and Sheldrake (packet) for Madeira and the Brazils. DOVER, MARCH 9.—Arrived off port the W. S. de la Guarda, —, from Odessa. DARTMOUTH, MARCH 9. —Arrived off port the Harvest Home, Brown, from Oronoco, and James Bennet, Esk, frOm Charleston. BRISTOL, MARC!! 7.—Arrived Gun, Humpbries,from Lisbon. LIVERPOOL, MARCH B.—Arrived the Harlequin, --, from Alicati, and Frances, Brown, from Naples. Off port the General Williams, —, from Mobile, and Fenwick, Keating, from St. John's, New Brunswick. CLYDE, MARCH 7.—Arrived the Franklin, Coffin, from Virginia ; Charlotte, Doyle, from St. John's New Brunswick; Harriett, Fisher, from Marseilles. DUBLIN, MARCH 7.—Arrived the Hellas, Scanlin, from Canton, sailed Nov. sth. CORK, Nov. 7.—Arrived the Scotia, Rusk, from St. John's Ne..ir Brunswick. The Margaret, Fisher, from Whitehaven to Wicklow, was driven on shore at Ramsay, Isle of Man, on the 6th instant. Crew saved. The Majestic, Nlearns, from Dundee, has arrived at New York, very leaky, part of the cargo thrown overboard, having been run foul of by a large vessel. The Danish ship Malada was fallen in with in the Chinese Sea, previous to the 19th Oct., a complete wreck, having been run foul of by the Golconda. Crew saved. The .Regulator, from Smyrna to Boston, was lost near Ply mouth (A) on the sth ult. Five of the crew drowned. FORMBY SUFFERERS.—The sum of 1,500/. has been subscribed at Liverpool for the relief the widows and orphans of the men who were unfortunately drowned at Formby by the upsettinc , of the life-boat. The stoup was followed on Tuesday by a fresh fall of snow ; and on Wednesday the mail from Edinburgh was nearly three hours behind the usual hour of arrival. At some parts of the road the effects of the drift were such that travel ling became a matter of life and death, and the guard declares he never passed stv:h a night and morning since the time of the sad catastrophe in the neighbourhood of Tweedshaws. At Rammerscales, on the same day, snow lay on the garden and grounds to the depth of 13 inches, and in various parts of Annandale was considerably deeper than in the vale of Nith. But the rain that fell so copiously on Friday, and raised the Nith to a great height, has completely swept the snow from the valleys, and left the husbandman at liberty to pursue his labours so soon as the fields become sufficiently dry. The hills still present patches of white, and may wear a wintry aspect for weeks to come ; but after so much storm, and a winter pro tracted beyond what is common, we indulge the hope that March dust will ere long appear, and that the spring, upon the whole, will prove more favourable, and less subject to sudden transition, than it has been known for a number of years.— Dumfries Courier. FRENCH AND ENGLISH POSTAGE.—The public will be glad to learn that M. Conte, the able and active Di. rectcur des Postes, and Mr. Frecling, of the English office, during the late stay of the latter in Paris, came to a decision upon the regulations to be carried into effect with regard to the postage of letters between France and England, which are of much importance to the two countries. One of the principal advantages of this long and anxiously expected arrangenTent will be the facility of paying the postage_ of letters, recipro cally, to the place of their ultimate destination. A great. saving of expense and time will be the consequence of this measure, by which a letter can be sent, postage free, or not, to a correspondent, as in either of the two countries at present. Another most beneficial regulation will be the power of re commending letters to the special care of the Post-office, whereby letters will only be delivered to correspondents in person, upon paying a slight additional postage ; this is a measure of great utility, and will prevent many losses. Jour nals are to be the objects of a special stipulation reserved by the Governments for future arrangement. The reduction of the rave of postage, which is enormously great at present, will also be effected. M. Conte, whose services in the adminis tration of the Post-office deserve so much gratitude from his country, has ascertained by experience that the lowering of the price of postage is of direct advantage to the Treasury, without taking into account the indirect revenues resulting from the increased developement of commercial transactions which it occasions. Thus, in 1830, the general produce of the post amounted to 30,000,000 of francs; in 1835, it was 39,000,000—an increase of 9,000,000 of revenue, due to the good direction of M. Conte, in the reduction of postage, and, in the general amelioration of the service.—Galignani's Mes senger. BALLOT.—On Monday evening, an adjourned meeting took place at Brighton .on the following subjects— Newspaper Stamps, Vote by Ballot, Repeal of the Septennial Act, and the tax-paying clauses of the Reform Bill. The weather still continues very cold and stormy. Heavy showers of rain have fallen, and the snow yet lies deep on the hills. The aspect of the country is very wintry, and unless a speedy change take place, the seed-time will be very unpropitious, and all agricultural operations very much re tarded.— Whitehaven Herald. THE NEW MARRIAGE BILL.—The following petition has been sent to Lord Sandon, who will present it to the Ilouse of Commons, and application has been made to Mr. Ewart, the other Representative, and to all the borough and county Members of Lancashire, to give it their support. It will be presented to the House of Lords by the Earl of Aberdeen, who is an elder of the Church of Scotland. "To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled, the petition of the Lancashire Scottish Church Presbytery, Humbly showeth : That your petitioners are ministers and elders, deriving from the Church of Scotland their ecclesiastical authority, and exercising the same in congregations consisting chiefly of natives of the sister kingdom, of which congregations there are throughout England upwards of 60. That your petitioners, while most scrupulously anxious not to disturb, either by word or deed, the institutions of that part of the empire where they re side, do yet regard with pleasure the change contemplated in the law pertaining to the celebration of marriage, as indicated in the Bill now before your Honourable House. That, seeing the measure is designed to be comprehensive, and, so far as essen tials will permit, accommodating to all religious denomina tions, your petitioners humbly hope that the peculiar usages of their communion will not be overlooked. That the uniform usage of the ministers of their church is, to perform the cere mony of marriage in private dwellings, never in churches, a usage arising originally from the anxiety to guard the people from regarding the ceremony as a sacrament, and now con firmed by lengthened custom. That, therefore, the humble request of your petitioners is, that the ministers of their com munion in England may, on receipt of a legal certificate of registration, be permitted to perform the ceremony of marriage in private dwellings ; and, instead of the registrar, the signed attestation of the minister, with that of two or more compe tent witnesses, may be held in law as sufficient certification that the parties have been united in marriage. And your petitioners," &C. On Sunday morning, the large rope warehouse be longing to Mr. Jas. Breed, near the White Rock, at Hastings, was washed down by the sea, and completely destroyed. The little town, called America, is now no more : what with the order from the Woods and Forests, and the influx of the sea, there is no part left. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1836 lenny coffee-houses. Master TURNER has told us how .__ . , a poor man may read the papers at a trifling expense in London ; but will he tell us how they are to be read at an equally cheap rate out of it? Will he be so good as to let us know—(through the columns of the Times, for we desire not his correspondence)—how a labouring man in any provincial town in England, Scotland, or Ire land—with the exception, perhaps, of Glasgow and Paisley—can read the whole of the London papers for 'double the sum he mentions ? There is not in all Ire land a' single coffee-house in which a. labouring man would find admittance. Where, then, does he pro pose to send him with his two-pence to look for Lon don papers ? But such blockheads as TURNER—and we have heard men of more pretension advance the same argument, even in Parliament—are unworthy of serious notice. No respectable father of a family would spend his evenings in coffee-houses or tap-rooms for the mere gratification of acquiring two-penny worth of news ; and still less would he bring his family, to whom . he might feel equally desirous of com municating the details of any particular measure. TURNER argues much after the fashion of MARIE ANTOINETTE, against the prevalence of a famine in France. The QUEEN in her calcu lation only forgot the trifling affair of money ; and TURNER, whose travels may have extended to " a Voyage to Putney by Vater," assumes, as a matter of course, that every man, woman, and child, in every part of his - MAJESTY'S dominions, " may procure two daily papers from the opposite house," for the small charge of two pence But, notwithstanding the boasted indifference of the Times and the Herald with respect to the abolition of the Stamp Duty, it is easy to see that a dread of losing an iniquitous monopoly, has much more to do with their evil augury, than a regard for the morality of his MAJEsTY ' s lieges. They affect indifference ; but the truth is, that they are as sick at heart as a bride forsaken at the altar. They feign to care nothing about the question as it may operate upon themselves ; and yet, in every paragraph about it, we detect the writhings of a tortured spirit. But it is too late to impose on the people of England by the humbug of public morality. Whether Newspapers be good or bad, the poor have an equal right to them with the rich, The Legislature is no more bound to protect. the mo rals of the labourer than of the lord ; and if it be a crime to read public journals, a tax which circum scribes their circulation is no more defensible than a license for opening gambling-houses and stews. It is a gross and malicious libel upon the labouring classes in England to suppose that they are peaceable because they arc ignorant, or that there would be danger in explaining to them the various relations by which society is bound together. The humblest artisans of the present day know more about the first principles of Government—are more strongly impressed with the necessity of laws, and a strict adherence to them—feel more forcibly the advantages to all classes from a conservation of the public peace—and are better acquainted with the constitutional forms of checking the course of a corrupt Administration, than were the whole aristocracy and the Parliament of England at the accession of Charles I. This has been effected by Newspapers—not in consequence of taxation, but in spite of it. But let us meet the moral humbugs on their own ground. Has the Stamp-duty, or the laws by which it is enforced, prevented the circulation of the un stamped Press ? Has it prevented knowledge—the worse for being illicit—from finding its way to the poor peasant's cottage, or the artizan's workshop ? On the contrary, have not the violators of the Newspaper Stamp Laws bade defiance to the Government—a fact which proves that Stamp Laws afford no protection, as with out an extensive circulation of the cheap Papers, the illicit traffic could not be carried on for a single week ? The Magistrates might continue to cram the prisons with the venders of unstamped Papers ; but will the Times have the effrontery to maintain that by such courses, the morality of England is protected ? The unstamped Press is clearly too strong for any coercive law. This at once settles the question ; for the co existence of a stamped and an unstamped Press is im possible. If the Times be really anxious to continue to pay the tax, we have no objection--we only seek to do away with the legal responsibility. In conclusion, we do not grudge our Tory Contempo raries any part of the wealth, abilities,.moral influence, or large circulation, of which they boast. We care not to admit that they merit the full share of public favour which they so modestly claim for themselves. But under a different system the balance will prepon derate in a different direction. The exclusives of the Press will find their present influence required to break their fall, when forced clown to their Proper level through the influence of public opi nion—a power of which we yet know little more than than the name. For our own part we are just as in dependent as the Times. 'Were the taxes on know ledge to continue, our chance is fully equal to that of our Contemporaries, whether Whig, Tory, or Radical; and were they abolished to-morrow, we are not quite sure but that we might be the first to suffer. But that is of no consequence, provided the country gain the many advantages which we anticipate from the abolition of this impost. We fear nothing, and hope every thing, from the good sense of the people of England. To make them vir tuous citizens, and peaceable orderly subjects, we are for making them as intelligent as possible. We are aware that knowledge and virtue are not inseparable ; but we know that vice and ignorance are ever in con- junction. The morality of the Press itself cannot be lowered. Of this truth—so important when taken in con junction with the question of Stamp-duties—we could give the most convincing proofs, from the columns of our Tory Contemporaries, during the last three years. Scurrility, personal invective, calumny, gross indecency, abandonment of principle, and incen tives to conspiracy and rebellion, have been the wea pons in most constant use since the first accession of Lord GREY'S Government to office. Let us hear no more then about the morality of a stamped Press. The ribaldry of the Tories sets all attempts at more gross immorality at defiance. We have advices from Constantinople to the 11th ult. A few days before Lord PONSONBY had a secret interview with the REIS EFFENDI ; after which he sent off' a courier with despatches to the British Go vernment. It was presumed that the interview had reference to some question of great importance. New York Papers to the 16th ult. have been re ceived. Congress has come to the resolution of re ferring all petitions on the subject of Slavery to a Select Committee, without permitting any speeches to be made on their presentation. This means is adopted with a view to put an end to those disgraceful exhibi tions which were always sure to follow the mention of Slavery in Congress. The war in Florida still con tinues with unabated cruelty on the part of the Indians. The whole of the Paris Papers of Tuesday have been received. It appears from them that the tele graphic communication, which we copied from the Times in the Sun of Tuesday, was a gross fabrication of the Journal de Paris to suit the purposes of some stock jobbers. It will be remembered that we stated PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Rank Stock. lndia Stoek... .................. • ••• '-- 3 per Cent Red. 3 per Cent. Cons. 913iTili South Sea Stock ...... ..... ...... -- Ili per Cent. Old Annnitics ..................... Ditto Red — New Ditto ........................... New 3% per Cent - New 3 per Cent --Exch. Bills, ..Ell 00 ......... 18 20 pm. Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto '700......... 18 2) p m. Jan. 5,1860 - Ditto Small Oct. 10, 1850 — Ditto Commercial ..... ..... p m. Jan. 5. 1860 - Ditto Adverti5ed ............ — l' m ' Jan. 5, 1880 - Bank Stock for Account ...... ... April 5, 181) - Jan. 5, 1870 — Consols for Acco unt ........114 3i, 14 Omnium pm PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK Austrian Bonds Peruvian Belgian Bonds 103% % Ditto Account ..... ............. Ditto Account. Brazilian Bonds • Ditto Account — Ditto Account BB Ditto New Bonds 7B Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto Account .......... ... 0 . 4 ,, -- Ditto Account ....... ........ 47 P— Dian Bonds. ' Chillian Bonds lllB3l , Ditto Account — Russian Bonds, 1822............ Columbian Bonds — Ditto Account .. .. . ............. Ditto Account - Ditto Metallic Columbian Bonds, 1821 30%34% Spanish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account .................. Danish Bonds Ditto Account — Ditto Account 43% gi% Greek Bonds — French, 5 per cent........... —t• —c• Ditto _Bonds, 1925 — -- 4 per cent .......... —f. •—•c. Ditto Account , --- 3 per cent • —f. —c. Mexican Bonds, 5 per cent — I-- Exchange........... —f. —c. Ditto Account — t Dutch, 24 per cent. ......... .`.6% 5% Ditto, 6 per cent. Ditto Account — Ditto, 5 per cent ...... 103 2% 3% Neapolitan Ditto Account — --__— • PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. Paid. Per Share Rolanos Mining Company.... Cala Branca Mining Company Columbian Mining Company (issued at 5 1 . pm.) 55 17% 16 55 Birmingham and Derby Railway Company 5 % Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 2 g 8 336 Calcutta and Suagur Railway Company Commercial Blac 2 kwall Railway Company 2% 3 1 40 Eastern Counties 1 2 1 3 4 Great North of England Railway Company 2 5U 49 39 8 Great Western Railway Company lO Hull and Selby Railway Company 5 9% Leeds and Manchester Railway Company Brighton (Rennie's) London and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 32% lii 2 London and Southampton Railway Company l5 25% 1% - 1 ondon and Croydon Railway Company 5 4 Northern and Eastern Railway North Midland Railway Company 5 12 South Durham 2% 7166% 7 South Eastern Railway Company 2 6 511 London and Westminster Bank 2O 24 3 4 Provincial Bank of Ireland 25 43% 1 Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l7 17% 16 KS. DUBLIN, MARCH 7 Grand Canal Debi. 6 per cent 87% Ditto, 4 per cent sti ' Hibernian Bank City of Dublin Steam Co. ln% National Insurance Co City Debentures, 4 per cent 77% Ballast Office Debentures, 4 per cent PRICES OF IRISH STOC] 3 per Cent. Consols 9l Ditto Reduced 3' per Cent. Stock . 98 %, Ditto New, 1830 99% 3' per Cent. Debentures 9l Bank Stock ‘2074 Royal Canal Stock .361i Grand Canal Stock n' MAILS. Arrived, Due. Arrived. Due. Arrived. 'Due. 0 America ...... .... 0 1 France 0 0 Lisbon 0 0 Brazil 0 0 Ouerti.&Jersey 0 0 Malta. 0 Buenos Ayres... 0 0 Hamburg ..... ... 0 0 Mexico 0 0 Carthagena...... 0 0 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0 1 Dublin 0 0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0 0 Flanders 0 0 Leeward Islands 0 1 Waterford 0 HIGEI W ATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW. Morning V3 minutes after 8. Evening 3 minutes after 9 THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. THIS EVENING will be performed the Opera of MASANIELLO; OR, THE DUMB GIRL OF PORTICI. Masaniello, Mr. Templeton • Don Alphonso, Mr. Duruset; Miss F. Healy ; Fenella, Mrs:Vining. After which—THE BRIGAND. Allessandro Massaroni, Mr. Cooper ; Prince Bianchi, Mr. Matthews; Maria Grazie, Mrs. Vining; Ottavia, Miss Lee. To conclude with—CHEVY CHASE. Henry Percy, Mr. Cooper ; Hermit of Warkworth, Mr. Wards ; Simon Wardlaw, Mr. Harley. Lady Neville, Miss Forde ; Lady Douglas, Mrs. Vining; Maud, Mrs, Humby ; Alice, Miss Lee. Stage Manager,-Mr. Cooper—Acting Manager, Mr. Yates. The Box .office is open daily, under the direction of Mr. Parsons, of whom Private and Family Boxes, Stalls, and Places may be obtained. Motes, 7s. ; Second Price, 3s. 6d.—Pit, 3s. 6d. ; Second Price, 2s. Gallery, 2s. ; Second Price, ls.—Upper Gallery, Is. ; Second Price, 6d kJ OUTH EASTERN RAILWAY from DOVER to LONDON, through the WEALD of KENT. At a highly respectable and numerous Meeting of the Inhabitants of ASHFORD and the vicinity (at which Deputations specially appointed frqm Dover, Folkestone, Hythe, Cranbrook, Tunbridge, and Tunbridge Wells attended), held at the Saracen's Head Inn, and adjourned to the Assembly Rooms, Ashford, on Wednesday, the 9th of March instant. WILLIAM JEMMETT, Esq., in the Chair, The following Resolutions were proposed, and unanimously adopted :- Ist. Moved by the Honourable Captain KING ; seconded by S. M. LATHAM, Esq.— That this Meeting has heard, with much satisfaction, the pro gress which has been made in Parliament towards obtaining an Act for carrying into effect the South-Eastern Railway. 2d. Moved by WM. JEWHURST, Esq. ; seconded by GEORGE HUGHES, Esq.— - - That this Meeting feel and desire to express a strong conviction that the undertaking will confer most decided and important advan tages, not only upon the town and neighbourhood of Ashford, and all the places through which the line of Railway is intended to be carried, but also on the agricultural interests of the district. 3d. Moved by Jonx STONE, Esq. ; seconded by EDWARD STODDA RT, Esq.— That, therefore, the most strenuous support be given to the pro moters of the undertaking, in their efforts to obtain an Act to carry the same into effect. 4th. Moved by JoHN BOXER, Esq., and seconded by GEORGE SHIPDEM, Esq.— That a Requisition be signed and presented to the County Mem bers requesting them to support the South - Eastern Railway in Parliament. sth. Moved by the Rev. Mr. CLARK, and seconded by RALrx THOMAS BROCKMAN, Esq.— That the proposed Undertaking will, in the opinion of this Meet ing, prove of the greatest importance to the Fishery Interests of the South-Eastern Coast. (Signed) WM. JEMMETT, Chaignan. The Chairman.having left the Chair, it was moved by EDWARD KNOCKER, Esq. , seconded by the Honourable Captain Kinks, That the thanks of this Meeting be given to the Chairman for his able and impartial conduct in the Chair this day. 1 Vol. Bvo., 88. 6d. bds. E SSAYS on several important Subjects connected with CHURCH AND STATE. • By the Rev. R. VALPY, D.D. F.A.S. Rector of Stradishall, Suffolk. CONTENTS. 1. The Law of the XII. Tables of Rome. respecting Debtors. 7. The Disposition of the French 2. The causes which must pre- Government to Peace. vent the establishment of a 8. Deeds without a name. Republic in France. 9. Defence of the Country. 3. The Catholic Question. 10. A state of insensibility in 4. The Practice of Liberal Piety suspended animation. vindicated. 11. The Interests of the Church 5. Rivality of France. of England. 6. Prophecies relating to the fall Printed and published by A. J. Street, and Sold 1 Valpy, Red Lion Court, Fleet )3 , all Booksellers. HAMBURG, FEBRUARY 24, 1836. TJIHIS DAY, being the FOURTH DAY of JL DRAWING of the SIXTY-SEVENTH HAMBURG GREAT LOTTERY, No. 1,126, say One Thousand One Hundred and Twenty-six, obtained the First drawn Prize of Bancomarks One Thousand, and the Premium of Bancomarks 100,000 net. TO CORRESPONDENTS. Our Portsmouth Correspondent is informed that the article he refers to respecting the Licensed Victuallers, appeared in The Sun of the 3d inst. The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day at 5 minutes past Three o' Clock. • ~-. •....... -gtv - .4‘,ttl ...:::::. l e _ ,- , .. , u , i' 7 ,..- A , „.„ , ~, ~ 4 ,..,, ~..._:,..: .....,,,,,,,,,, -., , A . 47 ,z 4 .4 fftl4l "4,0 D T I iCht 7'')lnl. LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 10, 1836. There is nothing more apt to ruin a cause, thin an over-anxiety to maintain it at all hazards. This pro position, true in every case, is admirably illustrated by the struggles of the Times to resist the reduction of the Stamp-duty on Newspapers. In that Journal of this morning, there is a heavy tirade of personal, dull, and vulgar abuse of the great Meeting of the Stamp. duty Abolitionists in the Guildhall on Monday, in the course of which the writer rests his opposition to the abolition of this tax upon the basis of public morality. This is not so bad, neither ; especially when the claims of the Times, to the dignity of a moral censor, are impartially considered. But, as we understand it, the expression of the Times has refere nce to the bane ful influence which Newsp a p ers would have upon the moral habits of the working classes. If this be the argument of our Contemporary , wh y was , 4 WILLIAM TURNER'S" letter inserted, who states that he can read all the daily papers, in conjunction with the en joyment of several creature-comforts, for the trifling charge of twopence ? Here the Editor of the Times, and his " intelligent" correspondent, Master TURNER, are fairly at issue. "The abolition of the:duty will enable every hod-man to beard the Government, by filling his head with knowledge now beyond his reach," argues the sage of Printing-house Square. " Every man with two pence in his pocket may command the daily taxed press of London," maintains Master TURNER. Both are wrong—the editor in asserting that the diffusion of political knowledge ever can be injurious to an honest Government, and his correspondent in thinking that his Majesty's dominions are studded with two- as much at the time; although we did not think our selves warranted in excluding a piece of intelligence which our Contemporary thought important enough for a second edition. The news from the North of Spain is not important. General EVANS has been appointed to the command of General ESPARTERO'S division of the army, in consort with EL PASTOR. PARIS, MARCH B.—A telegraphic despatch received yester day evening announces that the three ships of the line, the Nestor, Ville de Marseille, and Scipion, sailed from Toulon for Algiers on the sth of March. M. Delarue will have reached Algiers before the arrival of these three ships, he hav ing left Toulon in the night of the 2nd, on board the Castor Steam Boat. The object of his mission is to make the neces sary arrangements, in concert with the Marshal, that the troops which composed the expedition to Mascara may be distributed in the towns occupied by the regiments which are to return to France. It is said that the companies of discipline and several detachments of veterans are also to return. They will be landed at Corsica. The three above mentioned ships are gone to bring them away. The departure of these troops must be very unpleasant to Marshal Clausel, who intended to make an excursion to Coleah and Miliana. It is said to be in conse quence of the remonstrances of England, to which Lord Pal merston lately alluded in the House of Commons. A letter from Toulon states the number of troops returning from Algiers at 8,500 men, adding, that about 6,000 are to be sent to Africa in their stead. _ _ The Courrier Francais says :—lt is announced that a cou rier has been sent from London to Warsaw, with orders to M. Barton, the English Consul in that city, to go immediately to Cracow. The Ministry requires from him an official and cir cumstantial account of all that has passed there since the entrance of the allied troops. It is also affirmed that the English Government has appointed a Consul to Cracow, who will immediately proceed to his post.—llessager, March 8. FRENCH FUNDS.—Paats, Mattcn 8. Five per Cents., 107 f. 50c. 55c. 65c. 60c. Three per Cents. 80f. 80C. 75c. Uoc. Bank Actions, :2,165f 2,1b2f. 50c. 2,160 f. Route de Naples, 100 f. sc. 10c. 20c. 15c. Roman Five per Cents., 1.034%. Spanish Actives, 44V.i. Spanish Differes, Spanish Passives, 1;%, 15 14N. Royal Spanish Loan, 34. Belgian Loan, Five per Cents.. 104. Portuguese Loan, Three per Cents, 48 48 1 A. Haytian Loan, 395 f. 390 f. EXCHANGE ON LONDON. One month, paper, 25f. 50c. ; money, —I —c. Three months, paper, 25f. 35c. ; money, 25f. 32%e. —Ours Authentique. Bouitsm, THREE O'CLOCK.—This has been one of the most dull markets that we have had for some time. The Three per Cents. opened at 80f. 90c., and remained at that price almost the whole day. The Spanish securities are a shade better, but also without any business doing. A quarter of an hour before the close of the Bourse the Three per Cents. rose t 4 81f. 10e. No motive is assigned for this. QUARTER TO FOUR.--Five per Cents., 107 f. 80c. ; Three per Cents., 81f. sc. ; Five per Cents. Spanish, —; Three per Cents. Spanish, —; Cortes, —; Coupons, —; Gueb hards, —; Differes, 183 ; New Loan, —; Actives, 44a ; Passives, 14i; Ducats, 100 40 ; Romans, 1031 ; Pedros, —; Belgians, 104 ; Dutch, —f. —c. ; Haytians, 390 f. —c. ; Miguels, 20; Brabant Bank, —; Belgian Bank, 15; Con tinuation, —c. ; New Differes, 22; Five per Cent. Perpe tuelles, —; Royal Loan, 34. Brussels and German papers of the latest dates have been received. On the 22d of February the " Pro tecting Powers" had seized four hundred Polish re fugees at Cracow. Mr. BARTON, the British Con sul at Warsaw, received orders to proceed to Cracow, and make a report of all that had occurred for the use of our Government. His Majesty's Ministers rare about to send a Consul to remain constantly at Cracow. DUBLIN ELECTION COMMITTEE (THIS DAY.) The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock. The rate of Hugh Hemple, registered as the occupier of a shop in premises No. 16, Liffey-street, in the city of Dublin was objected to by Mr. Wrangham on the part of the petitioners, on the grounds that he was in arrear of the paving rate at the time of the election. It was contended on the part of the sitting Members by Mr. Joy that Hempel was not liable to the tax, as his was a lodging-house having a common entrance from the street, and that the landlord alone was liable to the tax. Mr. Jov was proceeding with his argument when our Re. sorter left. THE FUNDS.-(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. Quebec Papers to the 6th of February, and Montreal to the 11 th, have been received at the North and South American Coffee House. We extract the following from the Quebec Papers " UPPER CAN ADA. —TORONTO, JAN. 29.—This day at Three o'clock, his Excellency, the Lieutenant Governor, proceeded in state to the 'Chamber of the Legislative Council, when his Excellency - made the following speech : " Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council, and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly— " As the Lieut.-Governor of this province, I am commanded by the King to lay before you the answer his Majesty has been pleased to make to the separate addresses and represen tations which proceeded from the the two branches of the Legislature during your last session. This com munication I shall submit ,to you in a message which will at once inform you of the difficult and most impor tant duties about to devolve upon me, as well as yourselves. As regards myself, I have nothing either to promise or pro fess ; but I trust I shall not call in vain upon you to give me that loyal, constitutional, unbiassed, and fearless assistance, which your King expects, and which the rising interests of your country require." Objections were raised in. the Assembly on the evening of the 27th, for not consulting the Speaker of that Branch on this second Speech in one Session ; and a debate ensued, when Mr. Duncombe introduced a motion, and spoke of his Excellency being surrounded by " old advisers." The Speaker averred that he had not been consulted. Some feeling of distrust was manifested, and the matter re ferred to a Committee of Privileges. The Solicitor-General opposed the reference, but was left in a minority. A letter, on good authority, from Torento, states that the Assembly had, on the Report of the Committee, declared, by a majority of 4, the speech of Sir Francis Head to b 2 a breach of the privileges of the House. So far as accounts have reached us, Sir John Colborne's journey through tipper Canada, on his way to Montreal, has been a triumphal progress. The Legislature of Upper Canada will soon be in " hot water." It begins to boil already, and we may shortly expect bubbles in abundance. The Kingston Chronicle and Gazette, towards the close of an article upon the Address voted by the House of Assembly, in answer to the Speech from the Throne, says : " The vote of censure on the Lieutenant-Governor, which appears in the address relative to his condemnatory paragraph on the proceedings of tie French faction in the Lower Pro vince, together with the approval on the part of the House of Assembly, of the measures pursued by that body, must be read by every one possessing a spark of British feeling with senti ments of the deepest regret." THE FUNDS. The British Market opened this morning buoyant at the quotations it closed at yesterday. Consols for the Account 911 ; for Money 91i ; Exchequer Bills 18 20 ; India Bonds S 5. In the Foreign Market a trifling improvement has taken place in the Spanish Active Bonds ; they closed at 432. 45, and are at present 43/ 44 ; Portuguese same as the leaving off prices, 784 ; Three per Cents., 481 ; Colombian, 301 ; Mexican, 33 34 ; Dutch Two and a Half per Cents., 551 56k. The New York papers received this morning do not contain any news of importance. HALF-PAST ONE. (From the American Papers, received this morning.) EXTRACT FROM' A PRIVATE LETTER.--" St. Augustine, Feb. 2. Since my last, nothing has occurred here that is worthy of communication. I believe that the force now here has almost quieted the apprehensions of the people in this vicinity. We have flying reports of Indians hovering between this and Picolata, but their caution keeps them off from a post so well fortified and defended ; and if they are mad enough to make an attack, most certainly we shall g►ve so good an ac count of them, that no further danger will be apprehended rom them." The Commissioners for the West India claims have pur chased this morning about 130,0001. Consols, which has not made any difference in the price. Consols are 91i for the Account, and 91i for Money. Exchequer Bills 18 20; India Bonds 4 prem. In the Foreign Market, Spanish is lower than in the morn ing, and may be quoted at 431 ; Passives 154 ; Differes 214 ; Portuguese 78 ; 3 per Cents. 481. Price of Shares :—Commercial Blackwall 3 per share ; Great Western 40 38 per share ; Brighton (Rennie) 4 per share ; Greenwich 32 per share ; Southampton 25i per share; North Midland 12 per share. THREE 0' CL OCR, Consols for tito ♦,sount, Olt 1 1 . THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES. ZRITISH FUNDS. • Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Red 3 per Cent. Cons 91% per Cent. Omnium pn India Steck — Ditto ponds ....... South Sea Stock Per Cent. Red New 3 per Cent 100!i 4 per Cent. Assented . Dissented Long Annuities to expire JA.a. 1860 Oct. 1850 Jan. 1860 ,outi. _Jit Stock Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 101101.... Ditto 5001 2O pm Ditto 5001 2O pm Bank Stock for Opg. India Stock for Act. 259 Consols for Act. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per cent — Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. - - Belgian, 1 per cent IO3N Ditto, Now Ditto - 78 Brazilian Bonds - Prussian. 5 per cent. — Buenos Ayres, 6 per cant — Russtan Bonds, 5 per cent.....:_ Chilian, 6 per cent 47 Ditto, Metallic Colombian, 6 per cent. .... ... Span ish, 5 p er cent — Ditto, 1834 .. 30 1 ,4 Ditto. Consolidated 4 3 1,4 Danish, S per cen t 7M Feench, 5 per cent Greek Ilona, 1825,5 per cent. Exchan g e Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825 ....... 33 Mexican, 5 per cent. .. —811.50 e. Dutch, '2 per cent. Ditto, 5 per cent. .......,,,.IWI4 5 57, Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent. ... -- IRELAND. 0 dis- ORANomsm.—The majority of the Orangemen se , ti, and posed to follow the example of the Duke of Cumber ° er, re the advice of Earl Winchilsea. Some Lodges, howev : fiber!. fuse giving in their adhesion until the res ult of the di /Dams tions of the Grand Lodge of Ireland is known. Tee very trates of the county of Londonderry hav e passed son,mr. strong resolutions, declaring that the evid ence g iven Jones, a stipendiary magistrate, before the Committee ;07,"a quiring into Orangeism, is, so far as they are concernet Is mass of wilful and direct falsehood." th e MEETING OF THE TRADES' POLITICAL 1JNION•---On 6th a special meeting of the Trades' Political Union Iva' I bwn to take into consideration the proposed quali ficotion for to 3 councillors under the Municipal Reform Bill , and SOrae. Illoatt it: connected with the city registry. Mr. Arkins , in mnyt l ng tl adoption of the Report, congratulated the Un ion on ha-,leg .er tained, by their exertions at the registry, such a major ity 0 . 1 .er their opponents as would secure them, in the event of .Ifle.„t CE election, from the vexation and annoyance of a petition. "3-'ny had not, however, been seconded in their efforts by the c t _ tral Registration Club. Mr. James Martin proposed tb eel"; and Mr. Lawless the next, resolution, fixing the rate , 4 33 , lification that appeared to the Union as best suited to tl re eq. of Dublin, in its present wretched and impoverished. hst at ve e. thel'' stated that the proposed qualification would only a effect of excluding from the town council the most hon 3st are active members of the community, and that 3001., 'finUl at t Utmost 500/., in this city, would be more than 1,000/. any of the trading towns in England. The resolution pass ed aimously, and it was resolved that a petition be Parliament upon the subject. TITHES.—The parishioners of Killea have forwar Jed a?°e pres, sited tition against tithes, intrusted to William V. ,Stuart, E sq"' for presentation in the House of Commons. V,Te sen t to the House of Lords, because we can place n o confidence in them. They are deaf to our entreaties—theer never tr!a; nifested the slightest sympathy for our sufferin gs• Gahan, together with all the landholders and freeholders M a gid- ing in the district of Dunmore East, have signed thi• petit. 1; 0 ORANGE DINNER.—Over one hundred membors of t t Orange Institution in Limerick sat down to dinner a t half *P as six o'clock, on Friday evening last, in that city. Miss We learn from Rome that, on the 23d of last month, Hartwell, eldest daughter of the late Admiral and l' a d 3aotte Hartwell, renounced Protestantism, at St. Peter's, in tht -pre sence of a large congregation. inder On Sunday, at half-past three o'clock, during the tlxl storm, the house of Peter Toole, of Bullock, was thortA c shattered by the effect of a thunder storm , and he fah b3:O, grievously burned by the electric fluid passing over his s men. His daughter-in-law, residing in the house (an el ' I ., was recently married), has received a dreadful scorch in ri 1 0f the foot, and is otherwise dangerously wounded by the fa' ', le , the roof'. The trees surrounding the house virerg litera `A'a_ stroyed, and several articles of furniture thrown to a c, anslu p rable distance. The house of the Rev. Mr. Walsh„ P. ) suffered considerable damage from the effects of th e storla• , —fay, Mr. Wheeler, of Dublin, who was witness to the •aat , ..- - L has afforded us these particulars.—Dublin .Freeman's journa l At the fair of Clem - nob on Friday, pigs were bought np eagerly at 375. per cwt. The Orange Lodges of Cork have postponed their. •tnea tilli meetings under thr resent circumstances A man of the name of Quinlan, after lea;in corn ;at Cl mel, was murdered near the cross of Ardmayte l ,.. Tipp erarYr,c)- Wednesday evening. 1, the CHURCH AND STATE.—The kind of attachment v Church has always borne to the State is well ex ampli fled le ; warlike demonstration of one of her warmest nelvoila te , s 'o t 0 ( Orange) Mail. Imaoine, says this Church cht unpit l a , " I : heroes, every man a P'alafox, and sworn to defend the ec c astical Saragossa to the very last brick—resolved rathe r t i o rish in the last trench, than yield one foot of their s,acr,eased" Aye, sacred—most sacred—is the soil watered by the bloo it ° Rathcormac. It is plain that some Reverend Prel.ateo v8.„,e0 large revenues to the full—as much as the holiness of t''" religion. Riches and religion are their minds insepa.table. v'e ter/ RECAPTURE OF CONVICTS.—The Connerfs we re oon f at the Assizes before last, for an assault upon .the 11 ° 31s h e i e lt Mr. Foley, and threatening that gentleman's life ; for %bn offence they were sentenced to transportation for Connery said on that occasion—" By G— I shall ret'Arlir 3 .11 1 have revenge of you, Foley." The time for I`.heir rente‘or had arrived, and on their way to the hulks at found means to escape from the custody of the Cove, th ey our county jailor, at Clogheen. Since their es esPe i ! n e d of effort proved vain to arrest them. In the neighl '00 10 ";;,,rer their former misdeeds they carried every thing by 'th e :4 1 of they excited. A few weeks ago, the police were in eea r- o ed them, and on the borders of a wood they' darinV3 turies. round and fired upon the party in their pursuit. t he n a wl, peradoes had with them, when arrested at Waterford,. a r i s s a id, a sword, and some powder and shot. They were, it 13 r i e s. tryinc , to get off to Liverpool, thence to embark for Ant e " 'Waterford Chronicle. military va:ruy SPA IN. In executing my project for the improvement of natiooolo creditors as much as circumstances will admit, haviogo view the obligation imposed on my Government by th e of the 16th of January last, and agreeably with the P rO of sition of the Council of Ministers, I decree in the na rac my:au g ust daughter; Isabella 11., the following : lie " Art. 1. The consolidation shall be effected of the P ° big advantage,idl o e n bt - c o i q n u s o i ate da an t d de d a , nd t h whiche recogniz ed,cconsistsur re ntd ei which h t i w c hi thet h d t e r e s p ea p not sep r inters e r o r ya t oie - as li the debt without interest. red and re : og T n h iz is ed co i n ip so t l o id t a h t e ion 29 % t v h ill of inc F l e u b d i e sua a r e o r f e o d fth it ti s shei cl iaq u r i us aii : o iiTshati ever titles proceeding from the direction idatio7 the debt. These credits will be converted into different tiitzees " 3. The debts which shall be liquidated and re eu g ° th e from the Ist of Ma rc h o f th e present year, according t° the decree of the 16th inst„ shall be consolidated according o f nay method to be decreed by the Cortes, on the proposition ° Government. men' Art. 4.--The consolidation of the three species of debt ,oes" tioned in Art. 1, shall be effected in the space of stl'its, sive years, to commence with the present, and by sixth Pabee " 5. The Government will be at liberty to reduce !! pot terms according to the state of the nation, but it shs ' augment its number. : anal " 6. An account of the amount of the debts recognize-men-- not consolidated shall be kept of the three species abov e- rn " A de tioned, which after receiving my approbation shall be, .-eaCh public. This account shall state the amount by w hich an species of debt shall assist in forming the sixth part of the nual consolidation. ,„ 5 of "7. This consolidation shall be voluntary. The hlne: the debt to be consolidated may at their option claim this vantage, and choose that of the six periods which may them 8. best. pill The Ist of March of every year the Government the make known the amount it intends consolidating dui or year. It shall state whether it only extends to one-si° ooe. if it intends increasing the sum. In the present fea r sixth at least will be consolidated. in lUsilei 9. Af ter t h e 15th o f M arc h t o the 15th of May e ti t 0 of every year, the parties interested shall remit the anmn,es of, the bonds they wish to consolidate, mentioning the fPeetotal debt, the number of title, the amount of each, and the amount. No delay can take place. or / " 10. During the two months fixed by the prec edin alio o title, the holders of the securities of the foreign debt r-naoll interest shall remit to the c om missioners in Paris and . 1-4° 4 - 1 00° the amount of the sums they wish to consolidate on tne plan as for the home debt. ' b° " 11. When all the n o t es f rom th e p ers ons demon ag L ln i i be consolidation shall h ave b een rem itt e d, an extract v s :4o published of the sums presented to form the 6th or a fraction, which consolidation might be announced. to b e , " 12. If the d eman d s excee d th e amoun t of the s°'Thitee• liquidated, lots sh a ll b e pu bli c l y drawn of all vales prose,- i)ot If the overplu s d oes not f a ll on the three species of de in the on one of them, or on the two others, the less q uantitY 40 09 one stock shall n o t b e su ppli e d by the overplus of the others, because so soon as the lots drawn shall exclude the ae .aitio ° which exceed th e amount to be consolidated, the a c q ui ' will be made of what is missing. 'l ll° 13. The lots shall be drawn in the month of June. Gazette of Madrid will publish the result. r t 1 1: 14. If the demands do not exceed the sum fixed f f ioe cie,i annual consolidation, the Government will purchase the hal* of debt necessary to meet the deficit. These purchases be m 1 publicly through an agent. ed " 15. When the deficit in the amount to be cons° .11b ° shall fall upon the debt without interest, the purchases at home and abroad respectively in proportion. f l o stef il ' Art. 16.—The consolid a ti on s h a ll b e effected, the tb ° , ment delivering bonds of the debt o f 5 per Cent., toll and amount that may be necessa r y f or the realization in , M e/le° ' at the current course of the respective periods of-- For the debt, without interest For the current debt, with paper interest 34 per 0 , 1 0, For the votes not consolidated 33 per ~ball be " 17. The price of which the foregoing act s peaks P te fixed upon the result of all the operations done on the co change of Madrid in the 'consolidated debt of 5 pet fie during the month, that the Government will an°° -.0g t"- the Ist of March of the consolidation to be effecte d dull of . tb° year. The sum is designated for the consolidation pee present year. 18. The interest of this new liquidation will conlbeleeati° from the Ist of October next, so that the first turn v 6ll O O lll on the Ist of April, 1837. The interest will run en . dot ioni from the Ist of October with respect to the annual l ic i t/1 0 01 :n " 19. The interest of the foreign debt not bearing at the present moment, and which is to be consolida;teiotere-ii be paid at Madrid, and not in foreign countries. Tij' a S oCl ° P° shall be payable upon the presenting of the coupons, ;vet, the having proofs of the identity of the bearer. H ow for bearer will be permitted to remit a power of atto rney a t payment of the said interest to proper agents. ot 20. The titles to the new consolidated debt s h uns, e. the option of the bearer, or of the transmitted inscrir_eboie a of inscriptions to the bearer. The bearers will have el ivere.. " 21. The titles to the consolidated debt shall beatiateer to the proprietors during the month of August,... o , elk (' Strangers can, according to their option, receive W . : O o ftf or in the capitals of Paris or London, through the me di n° f • licat l f e ° commissioners, to whom they shall remit their aPP o e e a t th h e e csoinnskoilnigdatFeudndde,litht,roourgthhetyhecan procurfetthheempeartsotnlioest agency o with powers for this purpose. " 22. All documents or titles belonging d t" interest of the three kinds already noticed, " lied , 5° have been consolidated, shall be publicly canes o f they shall hot be again put into circulation. tbiS 28th Signed with the Royal band, at the Pardo, February, 1836." to the debbtiettuitlklai tt ..., ,s++